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>>host: use of the clintons were above board that hillary was equal partner the obama's has been careful to hide the fact michelle is the most important political adviser and listens to her for decisions. >>guest: yes. the way she does that is through her best friend. valerie jarrett. she hired michele many, many years ago from the goodale the administration but she is a person who comes from a well-off african american family. she introduced for the obama's to the power center jewish-american donors and dave political operatives. as a result raised from obscurity now all socializing rogaine shoulders with the power centers. and then when president of the united states. and she is their godmother now the senior advisor and obama's said i run at all decisions through valerie and trust hurt implicitly. no one has more power than the salary jarret spirit trying to figure out her hold on the president did say famous guessing game. >> what is bourse source of power? she has no foreign policy experience but it tends national security council experience. no economic background but in the most i
>>host: use of the clintons were above board that hillary was equal partner the obama's has been careful to hide the fact michelle is the most important political adviser and listens to her for decisions. >>guest: yes. the way she does that is through her best friend. valerie jarrett. she hired michele many, many years ago from the goodale the administration but she is a person who comes from a well-off african american family. she introduced for the obama's to the power center...
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and so i disguised the person by not using his or her name. but i can tell you that i ran this version and i was told yes, that's exactly what happens.
and so i disguised the person by not using his or her name. but i can tell you that i ran this version and i was told yes, that's exactly what happens.
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tell us, put this in context. obama there much of the time, doing voter registration drive that benefits carol which she ran. >> guest: in 1992. >> host: put obama in context of washington, and particularly how his relationship with independent black politics, coalition black politics transforms as he begins from the city and local stage to the gnarl -- national stage. >> host: there's a lot going on. runs against bobby rush, a community center black nationalist, independent, gets squashed. don't win. he talks about the need to build coalitions which is, you know, true, and overwhelmingly black congressional district in a racially polarized city, and so you have that, but there's others i talk about. it's just not where he sits among dependents which is important, but there's a guy nay the name of jones who's president of the illinois senate. you know, he's been in the trenches, comes out machine, you know, i met him because, you know, i did redistricting work for the illinois senate as a consul at that particular
tell us, put this in context. obama there much of the time, doing voter registration drive that benefits carol which she ran. >> guest: in 1992. >> host: put obama in context of washington, and particularly how his relationship with independent black politics, coalition black politics transforms as he begins from the city and local stage to the gnarl -- national stage. >> host: there's a lot going on. runs against bobby rush, a community center black nationalist, independent,...
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tell us a little bit about what that is. what is the primary distinction or fissure in black politics in this chapter? >> guest: the big difference and i want to be clear it's not just black politics. right in the mid-1960's when we have discussions about voting rights and the voting rights bill, black leaders and black people began to talk about what their vision of black evil in politics and electoral politics should look like. on the one side you had malcolm x and his famous speech the ballot for the elect where he talks about black voters should not be taken for granted, that there should be basically community centered issues that matter, no matter what the color of the politician is and those politicians should be held accountable based on what they did or did not do in the interest of the community. on the other side you had a more coalition focus perspective in and in a famous essay he wrote in the 1960's from protest to politics. he really was trying to steer the protest movement into electoral politics as a part of
tell us a little bit about what that is. what is the primary distinction or fissure in black politics in this chapter? >> guest: the big difference and i want to be clear it's not just black politics. right in the mid-1960's when we have discussions about voting rights and the voting rights bill, black leaders and black people began to talk about what their vision of black evil in politics and electoral politics should look like. on the one side you had malcolm x and his famous speech the...
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fu o , icly for us. if we seek race-neutral institutions and color blind laws, they call us racist. of if we point to the thre sed by islicans, t ula phobes and bigots. the only attitudes our opponents hold that could reasonably be called liberal under sympathies they exhibit fo domestic fohepera o voter fraud and the denigrators of religious faith, for the thug erie of government unions and the an anarchistobs who seek to reverselection results they don't like. lilswhago f munists befo , agetrol our lives, to make us better. no more big gulps or incandescent lightbulbs or untad lemonade stands. this all reflectshe reality to mention. inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out. [laughter] and justas liberals aren't ho tmawsy edict.ts are no when they control the congress, they rule without advice or consent. when they losetate elections, they descend on legislatures to shut down the very process of deliberation and debate. un ynkhaiv the discredited ideas of karl marx and jimmy carter is the way to the happy future. the book that jacob and i have obatth draich we ca
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tell us about where he stands from the beginning to the en. what really makes him a kind of central independent black nationalist kind of candidate? >> guest: he is more complex than that. harold washington, a brilliant politician, great orator, and he really laid it on the ground of what the implications were about that election. and he had to be virtually dragged into running. there was a whole movement prior to getting him to run. led mostly by this activist by the name of lou palmer, who i talk about in the book. a political activist and not a political organizer. there's a difference and we can talk about that. and so carol washington was -- i would say was on the border between the black nationalists as well as the traditional independents because he had experience. he had tried to work in the machine, to make progress. he had grant for mayor in the 1970s. there were some sort of black machine politicians who went along with the -- the white machine candidates that way, heard washington called them the biggest uncle tom on god's green ea
tell us about where he stands from the beginning to the en. what really makes him a kind of central independent black nationalist kind of candidate? >> guest: he is more complex than that. harold washington, a brilliant politician, great orator, and he really laid it on the ground of what the implications were about that election. and he had to be virtually dragged into running. there was a whole movement prior to getting him to run. led mostly by this activist by the name of lou palmer,...
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hehi us, iaid maybe i should use this coffin to start out and then string evything about china around this how we prepared this coffin and give people an idea of what '8nd nwas like in the 's, ou ttrture it came very easily. so throughout the whole thing i use the coffin as a metaphor for what's, what was china then and what is china now. onlkabinhe o use a very sle ysfi t black, sinister thing, and everybody, you have to be hided away from the public, and my family used to put it in my bedroom, would cover it up with a different tablclot o wit nsp pe dn s everything build. if you got caught and then they would, my father could have lost his job, and all the punishment. but nowadays coffinuddly comea vuio sol caco,th esrd sohymes with the word fortune and promotions. so sometimes everybody in china today in their relentless pursuit of money, marial weth rhtowein ugl calc. th cnde becomes this very auspicious thing. i heard that sometimes if you give a gift somebody, government official be, you just give them a little miniature coffin. they put it on your, they put it on their des [lgh
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to use them in korea. that was when marshall was just theer to simplcago council, before alongith tusan sos aor ad ias rlly onlyhe thheadbetheec alternative that we decided the weapons were too powerful to use ki.ksfor cntly sehe now, with terms remain the other decision that rather than weapon of mass dtruction that y tgetreery preseea rell meply tar ou. o wre ungmvery week. and cyber i suspect, is going to of fall somewhere in between. we are nowhere near understandingow we'reoi to e stto tnk ttn t toheat of office he went over to see president bush a the white house for just a and-1 meeting. aro phat y'rre th o -- it turned out president obama not only didn't give up on them, he ianas the sis r ofhi f esllstgytay ano lger afford to send hundred thousand troops and oc cri f fsiion dollars a fgnistan n1 ars t come from -- he ed aifreh. apch bo try to make use of american technology and knew weapons that would enable the u.s. to get in and get out nor nefoa bar special forces, the fastest-growing part of t
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>> us. his earlier topics of interest word the meadowlands and the row. road. a very wide-ranging writer. >> this is booktv on c-span2 and we have been talking with sarita varma director of publicity at ferrer strauss and perot. >> wenguang huang discussed his book "the little red guard," his memoir of growing up in central china during the 1970s. that is next onus booktv. [applause] >> good afternoon everybody. is this on? so it gives me great pleasure to say hello to you and to be on te stage here with a traffic writer, journalist and man who m also happens to be a good friend of mine, wenguang huang. j huang is a reporter and writer has beenrnalist who doing national and internationai reporting for -- si since 1990 i think it is fair ta say. he is now writing besides the book we are going to talk about today, he is now writing for "fortune" magazine. he writes for "the new york times," "christian science monitor" and is also written for printers row journal which is her literary publication," something that you need to be aware of, that is part of thensr mem
>> us. his earlier topics of interest word the meadowlands and the row. road. a very wide-ranging writer. >> this is booktv on c-span2 and we have been talking with sarita varma director of publicity at ferrer strauss and perot. >> wenguang huang discussed his book "the little red guard," his memoir of growing up in central china during the 1970s. that is next onus booktv. [applause] >> good afternoon everybody. is this on? so it gives me great pleasure to say...
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o iheo ko t nt of people seizing hold of democrywud n o him nd cre >> it reminds us ht en we think fe ntar wmoin st rl dest to lar erf gbak america today. if you believe there is ree u to prt when the challenges o the demise nwk e ere imw. sld vigilant. >> guest: what surprised -- inspired me i said to much about striving. bupoto hts d thstyul h the second point* he th a maph mrbr 1835. ese theis usiherehe obs nt ch i tef isno rct sitear merry and this gentleman born about one year apart. a mississippi ar h w noite1870's senses as 35 year-old s part of the trackmlam tt d ad o a childnar this since this record the last name is that the top and you see the household. you see the whit farmera beisanac n e nr he is three. thhiheshnw the has a son eugene. ategisare grat ro m rat eaanhes itssppan gour aur] sodoeis emblematic and we do share thisay wt ts ha rdaat we might tell our children ofti comftaa g: hota ou. i h tlkut the reverberations are many. i domca maybe i put to t much emphasis of dialogue but i thk itps hopentert inice a'milyay rng insttho. [applause] >> h nt our rn an wham que
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very reliance on scholarships that have come before us which provides a very useful guide command in the and you just go back to theriginalrc heas netand v lhaanatupnlbany called in the netherlands institute which has, for several decades now, collected and transcribed and organized many of the crucial sources relevant fo my tknow what wasry. very important is getting at the dutch context of another oil story, so i had to go back to another lens, the archives in halsiguserlands, amsterdamh relevant to new netherlands, the hague, which has the official archives. and then also all books and bifocentshe evidence and ches. and it -- on the one hand it is not like doing modern u.s. history. you don't have mounds and mounds of sources to go through, but on the other hand you have to find things and you have to piece together bits of edencf l pspapwh indhaengind rewarding. >> so what is the takeaway of people read this book? what you want them to remember? >> well, i gsshe ini m. the first is that there is the dutch contribution. i'm not trying to decide on that, but it is somewhat mor and
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i don't think many of us knew about it. one of thethings i am proud of in thebo hhawo ewsso mse sthaend freely. in the '90s, there were a lot of opponents of gaddafi, and they tended to be imprisoned in pe wdyofan aron whwr sick, brighton for better conditis. theyhought they had a deal to ti. hapda thtteyre rdnt courtyard, and soldiers were positioned on the roof, in 1270men were gunned down in cold bod. 1270 e. okeeur or 0 a. t3:.m june 28, 1996. i went to the prison,o hv a . i tgemaer yein ison. he told me how he looked out of his cell window and saw the laws of the courtyard turning red with blood. en i heard about hs,tis ou shier ifiduntahi ul ustabt libya. i asked if i could meet some of the victims families. and he said yes. i stepped into this rom and i waexino eal ep ofs , er but 15 or 20 women on the side. the same number men on the other side. each of them were hodi up photographs of the husbands or otsront thercopte ie athe w extraordinary. an old man came forward to tell his story. a small guy, traditional libya
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that resonate with us today. this november each political party will have 10,000 lawyers monitoring there election. if there any regularities or any sloppiness or any fraud, you cas bet that this will go to court. we came only a few thousand votes away from john kerry challenging the ohio electionhae resultsat in 2004 and that could've launched the same process all over again.is walter ds ean burnham, the deanf american political scientists say we have a sloppy selection system of any industrialized democracy. e time to take remedial steps will the election to minimize the sloppiness, incompetents, and from. from has distorted history in american life. it just like to be decent and animals college students. and live in new jersey, one of the most corrupt political machines ever. the men there for 40 years. what it @booktv? because of its wooden ones. in 1935 be honest about association, the do that is another day some 245 princeton, students to one of the election. the beat of five of them within the or the arriv
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tell us why you organize the book in that way? was it a marketing decision in termof the reader htk tosmpngec rvefooiac ry >> you now, when i started thinking about the structure of the book, it occurd to me th acallyart tos- reki te e stit iea tree as well as the story of so many generations of people who emerge from slavery, and i knhehe ry di elomae t caer f y e eose, but the question is where it began, and it's a little unorthodox. i didn't know reallyhen i stted doing it how well it uld rk but hoht iould io u atee there was so much silence over the generations that kind of peeling ba the layers and hearing the bitsandpieces peop kneandweydi seofsheeverns sryv time and that you would be kind of drawn to this in the beginning. >> silence, thinthat is oneo mootehein e , palnof pan ikmet wa w yelth orer yr owway of easing the reader into that moment, this moment f - t ibom tar ldleesban i s thinking about the context and the timing of this work so of course there is the first woedthw tt reallspeaks rdeehema ffern sally hemmings a
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entreprenushipill t us ut ea inut e and then use gate to where the puck will be not whe it has been. >> that they don't take a time horizon of slander then we ind people whehe zer ren xe t it but how would private equity firms or a fo -ndeon to bill gates compete with the public-school system expect saying education and enterprises do teb leav to slatese tss rr log eeve 1 ar tuen n ask is the quarterly earnings report is that the bad thing? that about 10 stios. kli r a couple. there are short-term requirements for poiticians pbcopoon if you are itr senator with the election cycle is not the same of the prability of the hurricane or more an earthquake. you enact in the best interest every s yrs. yu arornu have quarterly earnings. you may not be interested to invent something that takes eagsnoc prices?e investo harris basically eight imperfections in both marks because of short-term and long-term horizon sdre onlwopze. e ma sio e top s vem ts another way in the corporate world is to privatize. those wo don't have to do investors. ot ae i the implications but they are disappearing becau
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tell us about how it got started and why you do it. tell us the truth about david brooks. what's he really like? >> david brookings is such a pumpkin. i love him. i hired him, actually. i was proud of that i was editor. bill had retired, and it was not actually a big secret we were looking far republican columnist. and the trick with the times and "times," the readership of the "times" people who read the opinion page tend to be more liberal than not. and i wanted to find a conservative columnist people would read even if they degreed with them. there was so many out there i could put in the paper. people looked at it and throw it down and walk away. david was -- he's very good at he grew up in the lower east side of new york. his parents were hippies. he went to chicago, as i told you. he knows -- he is the conservative but knows how to talk to the liberals. he's great that way. and we both think it's the most fun thing we do in the week. we have a great editor. it's pretty ease to do it the back and forth. and people like to -- they like it because they like the fact tha
tell us about how it got started and why you do it. tell us the truth about david brooks. what's he really like? >> david brookings is such a pumpkin. i love him. i hired him, actually. i was proud of that i was editor. bill had retired, and it was not actually a big secret we were looking far republican columnist. and the trick with the times and "times," the readership of the "times" people who read the opinion page tend to be more liberal than not. and i wanted to...
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it is not that any of us can imagine better, but can all of us do better? and that is a relevant question. when you looked out and see the fragility and inequality of the economy, the direction of foreign policy, the paralysis of the national dialogue, that is a legitimate question. can we all do better? we know that we have said the at our best if we're going to meet the challenges our country faces we knew each u.s.s. to be a best that, of course, is the next level of the title. as i simply camera politicians are politicians and people and washington to better. the answer is self-evident given our circumstance. in each of us do better? that might mean some very simple things in your life. politics today is a battle between two competing efforts, caring collective action associated with democrats in the ethic of responsibility and individual action republicans. that is what campaigns are. already shaping up that this is what is going to be this year. the presidential race about the future and not the past. there is. it is beginning to be that same thing. w
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-- your story reminds us in the way you tell the story reminds us that whenever we think the moment we are rained, whenever the first family represent in terms of moving past the racial divide of the 20th century and everyone doesn't agree. let's be clear, there's a huge difference, both of experience in terms of being black in america today and also exception. but whatever you think is one of the most powerful lessons you demonstrate is that he believed that there is progress, then you also protect it. the story tells you your fragile, whether it's the challenges of racial violence in chicago for aspiring violent over the demise of political power and participation in the wake of the emergence of jim crow. it strikes me that in this moment we have to really be vigilant about whatever gains we have made. >> i think it inspired to me that people are, where they occurred they were striving. i said too much about striving. that was one of the things, but i think that people took the space that there was and i think that's meaningful. >> i want to finish. i said there was two points. th
-- your story reminds us in the way you tell the story reminds us that whenever we think the moment we are rained, whenever the first family represent in terms of moving past the racial divide of the 20th century and everyone doesn't agree. let's be clear, there's a huge difference, both of experience in terms of being black in america today and also exception. but whatever you think is one of the most powerful lessons you demonstrate is that he believed that there is progress, then you also...
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miming used to say -- midge used to s i have a lot of boy in me. i couldn't resist and said one last thing. on the positive side, we'd be a great balanced tt because i re aag - caiar a flag pen, and he doesn't. that's what president obama got grief for not wearing a pen. i was off the air at 2:31. then my phone rang, and it was [lterrhi speune person here in chicago thought that was funny. [laughter] i said, david, come on, you guys got to get e sense of humor, noeroul r ma it t goseof humor, but made it to november just find. thank you, all. [laughter] [applae] >> you're watching 48 urs of non-fiction authors and boks on >> there's been a hostility through poverty. it's the war on porty. johnson was the best president and looked at poverty issues and ent money on it andtalked hao this, but richard nixon is the father of minority business development, and inside his minority business -- established small business adminiration andused the trm coc jceic n,nojue. he fer pde bennet college for women regularly writes and comments on politics, education,
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something the might have brought us together what was left unfinished. the but he never noticed the story of what we didn't do together, the conversations we didn't have and the projects we didn't finish of the stories he left out as the end her life about which i knew so little. of what our relationship could have been but wasn't. the bonus march itself reminds me of the relationship between a searching child and a detached father. the effort perhaps to collect that. my taxi driver is continuing to speed. the route that is different from the one i usually take that that's okay. taxi drivers navigating the corner to my parents' house could be difficult. getting away from it had never been a problem. for me the opposite has always been true. like my father, i've always had trouble leaving chicago behind. but when i do finally get inside zero here and look at the departure monitor and find my flight, i see that it's the first one of the day and it's right on time. [applause] so, that's where the book begins. as i said it starts with an airplane ride and ta
something the might have brought us together what was left unfinished. the but he never noticed the story of what we didn't do together, the conversations we didn't have and the projects we didn't finish of the stories he left out as the end her life about which i knew so little. of what our relationship could have been but wasn't. the bonus march itself reminds me of the relationship between a searching child and a detached father. the effort perhaps to collect that. my taxi driver is...
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president, using up there. he stared into his progress and growled, utah, the problem of of what -- the power of the presidency. i spend most of my time is in some ways as. well, those two quotes really represents how it works. i think it is a marvelous institution and, as i say, it's a pleasure being here to talk about the marvelous institution. i'd be happy to take any questions. as you noted, please go to the microphone. [applause] >> think you for your talk. i can verify that everything you said is pretty much in there. my name is dave price. i am a retiree. have two questions. a very limited mentioned. more so than some of the others. was that deliberate on your part? the second question would be, given the new media which we have now to you think that will have any impact, for example, if you think of the alien and sedition act, imagine what will be done with that now. abraham lincoln and may not have even become president because of his squeaky voice and his looks. so it is kind of an unfair question. yo
president, using up there. he stared into his progress and growled, utah, the problem of of what -- the power of the presidency. i spend most of my time is in some ways as. well, those two quotes really represents how it works. i think it is a marvelous institution and, as i say, it's a pleasure being here to talk about the marvelous institution. i'd be happy to take any questions. as you noted, please go to the microphone. [applause] >> think you for your talk. i can verify that...
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[laughter] none of us are 100% non-wusses, and none of us are 100% wusses. so having said that, your original question was? oh, aboutampgn nance thsws, ery t shibot. it is stunning, the influence of money in politics, special interests in politics. and with citizenned united -- cizens united, which i believe thprcoin mg wor sif ti- la s has said you have to go back to dred scott to find a decision as bad. with citizens unit the floodgat have opened, and noly its edo ggac ow t limits off corporate contributions and individual contributions, but it makes it very hard to find out who's givinghat before the election occurs. it's disastrous on so many diffent fronts. to tinth do edelson is going to give $100 million to help defeat president obama is absolutely stunning. it's absolutely stunning. that one person can do that legally, absolutely stunning. we have to make changes, but in light of the court'sci i tiun, ton ev co s and the constitution. and it would be what's called the 28th amendment. if any of you watch dylan rat michigan on msnbcn the tr tar sor bvo
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and we don't want anybody taking that away from us. you know, there've been lawsuits against even the pledge of allegiance. they have not succeeded with those yet, but who knows if one of the greatest powers of the president is the power to appoint judges. if obama points another alayna kay hagan, that will control our country for the next 50 years. we can't afford that. so your up for this ..
and we don't want anybody taking that away from us. you know, there've been lawsuits against even the pledge of allegiance. they have not succeeded with those yet, but who knows if one of the greatest powers of the president is the power to appoint judges. if obama points another alayna kay hagan, that will control our country for the next 50 years. we can't afford that. so your up for this ..
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obama doesn't seem to have the skill set to use human nature as a way of getting done what he wants to get done in washington. >> how many books have you written? >> well, i think this is my 11th book. there's three novels and eight notary public-fiction -- non-fiction books. >> what do you say to critics of your books? you refer this as a journalist book. >> yes. what do the critics say? >> about the accuracy of the stories you tell, ect.. >> right. well, the fact of the matter is that as far as i know there has not been a single fact in the book that's been challenged in a cred l way. people say, oh, klein makes things up. that's what kids in the schoolyard, you know, they call each other names. i've been all kinds of names, but, in fact, when it comes to the celt -- credibility of reporting, nobody laid a glove on me yet. >> former editor of "the new york times" magazine for how long? >> 12 years as editor in chief of the magazine. many of my books have been exi remember -- excerpted by "vanity fair," and they have the most rigorous fact checking department, and of all the books exc
obama doesn't seem to have the skill set to use human nature as a way of getting done what he wants to get done in washington. >> how many books have you written? >> well, i think this is my 11th book. there's three novels and eight notary public-fiction -- non-fiction books. >> what do you say to critics of your books? you refer this as a journalist book. >> yes. what do the critics say? >> about the accuracy of the stories you tell, ect.. >> right. well,...
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then in use, cripples. pictures were not taken of him in a wheelchair. pictures were not taken of him using braces or crutches. if they were the press was very discreet. they didn't do such things. the press would be a lot less discreet today. we are now dealing with a roosevelt that the public thought they knew but they didn't really know very well. he gave speeches on radio. there was no television yet. speeches on radio called fireside chats. he had no fire side as he spoke and the people he spoke to listened on their little radios that were not near any fireside either. this was just the make believe that was done in the me the at the time. he gave a tremendous number of press conferences during his presidency. nearly 1,000 press conferences. he did so by sitting behind his desk. people didn't realize he sat behind his desk because he couldn't stand up. they just accept it for what it was. he was very astute in what he said. he was warm hearted and humorous. during world war ii when there were problems
then in use, cripples. pictures were not taken of him in a wheelchair. pictures were not taken of him using braces or crutches. if they were the press was very discreet. they didn't do such things. the press would be a lot less discreet today. we are now dealing with a roosevelt that the public thought they knew but they didn't really know very well. he gave speeches on radio. there was no television yet. speeches on radio called fireside chats. he had no fire side as he spoke and the people he...
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he provided use of commercial shipping that got to be a problematical. he signed and fostered the alien sedition acts, which criminalize public criticism of the government and use the sedition act to root out in the grades that were potentially hostile to federalist sensibilities and that will go back today. there's a story of one french bookstore owner who moved here quietly running the bookstore in philadelphia and ended up being singled out for deportation. a friend had some connections in washington. why me? why am i being singled out? the guy made some inquiries and reported back that the president said nothing in particular, but these two french. he presided over massive tax increases, which led the economy to begin stuttering, so the voters in 1800 display sent them packing and i think they have it right. there's a collective judgment, maybe even collective wisdom. they have four years to sue over it and then take another action and that's what they do. so both cleveland and not insisting ranking shifts since 1948, but they are still rather high.
he provided use of commercial shipping that got to be a problematical. he signed and fostered the alien sedition acts, which criminalize public criticism of the government and use the sedition act to root out in the grades that were potentially hostile to federalist sensibilities and that will go back today. there's a story of one french bookstore owner who moved here quietly running the bookstore in philadelphia and ended up being singled out for deportation. a friend had some connections in...
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enough to die for us. in my own life, many black people wld say only mama would do that or daddy. they loved us enough to die for us? that's serious business. anere'al b a whuldi black people. because you know if you love black people deeply, there's a very good chance you're going to die. [laughter] because if they suffer so bad, you hate the fact they're suffering, you've t do meg. eain mogo u black people. whether you agree with him idealogically or not, the brother loved black people enough tkeep them on his mind all the time. willing to die. and black people knew that. so they wouldn't even agree with hipocall benth wrct'eyay e somebody who's sacrificing for me. but that's very serious. and the flip side,f course, is the babies, you see? so many of the slave insurrections resulted from the death of a slave baby. th'shytecla race,or u de and that's the worst thing you could ever do to any people, isn't it? it's the deepest form of dehumanization. that's what they did with our jewishrothers and sisters
enough to die for us. in my own life, many black people wld say only mama would do that or daddy. they loved us enough to die for us? that's serious business. anere'al b a whuldi black people. because you know if you love black people deeply, there's a very good chance you're going to die. [laughter] because if they suffer so bad, you hate the fact they're suffering, you've t do meg. eain mogo u black people. whether you agree with him idealogically or not, the brother loved black people enough...
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and maybe you know i to give us a moment or to remind us how that came about. >> would exist on paper doesn't often fully exist in reality. the united states became independent in 1783, nominate by the way of the treaty of paris but it wasn't fully recognized by european powers as a full equal. as time went on, it became clear and clear that the united states was not regarded as a full sovereignty to the war until the late 1790s, 796 i think was, red coated rigid soldiers flying the british flag on american territory. it was clearly american territory in northern ohio and michigan, wisconsin and the thing for sure time in indiana until eventually removed by j street it was clearly an illegal occupation by the mistakes military, could drink about. despite the fact that this is violation of the terms of the treaty. after that, the british continued to interview with the indian trade, tried to monopolize very thoughtful portrait of the northwest for territory with a great deal of success. the loyalty of the indians to the great father, the king, king george who we thought we were rid of.
and maybe you know i to give us a moment or to remind us how that came about. >> would exist on paper doesn't often fully exist in reality. the united states became independent in 1783, nominate by the way of the treaty of paris but it wasn't fully recognized by european powers as a full equal. as time went on, it became clear and clear that the united states was not regarded as a full sovereignty to the war until the late 1790s, 796 i think was, red coated rigid soldiers flying the...
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describes theh university of hawaii a a great place because of its diversity and a mother who gets the uses afa w wero've satisfied wherever he is, and hi ends up in hawaii sellings furniture.ev and then they meet in a russian class, and here comes barack obama who emerges as a whole own til meest existence of his tnist. emuntil he becomes president of the united states. >> host: >> guest: in butler county is naen the rest of the grew up and store in topeka which is the state capital because he lived there for a short time. his father, the president's great grandfather was an auto grgrot was married at age 15 and a very difficult marriage but in the book begins with suicide n topeka a then stanley, the president's co a htreds comes back to buler e adhe story begins but it wouldn't have happened without but suicide. >> host: we want to show a montage shot by your wife on your trip to kansas in april, n conversations [inaudible conversations] >> and the traged of obama's story is where his great grandmher who omtted ind stanwyck dunham, obama's grandfather died and they moved to a little hous
describes theh university of hawaii a a great place because of its diversity and a mother who gets the uses afa w wero've satisfied wherever he is, and hi ends up in hawaii sellings furniture.ev and then they meet in a russian class, and here comes barack obama who emerges as a whole own til meest existence of his tnist. emuntil he becomes president of the united states. >> host: >> guest: in butler county is naen the rest of the grew up and store in topeka which is the state...
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we have to use a metaphor. i call it a short sense of separation kind of like italian neighborhoods whe you can speak over the short fans. you can be friendly. that's a much better description of what we're talking about. just because the constitution does not have the phrase wall of separation, not it is a private human sacrifice. so come on. i wrote the book because unfortunately had think our american spirit is still alive. we can turn this nation around, but unfortunately we have become a very of our constitution. it does not come to you in the bloodstream. it has to be taught. that's what i'm attempting to do. a few short examples indelicate to some questions. i'm told all the time how is it a shame the president to have that pledge of allegiance has been taken of public-school. the implication that it's been taken up by a supreme court of the interstates. that is a false statement. it's false. the ninth circuit removed the underdog frays and therefore from the year 2000 forward that was reversed on a tech
we have to use a metaphor. i call it a short sense of separation kind of like italian neighborhoods whe you can speak over the short fans. you can be friendly. that's a much better description of what we're talking about. just because the constitution does not have the phrase wall of separation, not it is a private human sacrifice. so come on. i wrote the book because unfortunately had think our american spirit is still alive. we can turn this nation around, but unfortunately we have become a...
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be gracious to us, lord, and guide us. we pray in the name of our lord and saver, jesus christ, amen. one -- when i was working on the book "implosion" i happened to be own a phone call with at governor of state here in the united states. american governor, and we were talking about israel and radical islam and what was happening in the middle east. that's my major focus, right, that's the book -- i write about is what happening in the israel in the epicenter in relationship to bible prophesy but also here now in the geopolitical world we love in. the governor was interested in those things. he had a long-standing interest in the things. that's what we were talking about. but it being a year approaching the political season, he asked me what i thought about what was happening in the political realm, and again, i said this. i don't want to talk about it too much. and this wasn't somebody running or anything. don't start guessing. that's not the point. the point is, so we have the conversation and one point he asked me, as w
be gracious to us, lord, and guide us. we pray in the name of our lord and saver, jesus christ, amen. one -- when i was working on the book "implosion" i happened to be own a phone call with at governor of state here in the united states. american governor, and we were talking about israel and radical islam and what was happening in the middle east. that's my major focus, right, that's the book -- i write about is what happening in the israel in the epicenter in relationship to bible...
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it's up to us as a people to say let us begin again to do the work. that is we are going to live, we are going to love and resist. most important word is resist. we are calling to resist. i will come once a week, once a month, twice a month, whatever, to have conversations about where are we, where are we going, and the other thing is even though barack obama didn't run, we should have a black cabinet. it can be official and unofficial but if he does something wrong we will send him a letter telling him what he is doing wrong. we need a black cabinet people, yes. i've said it from the jury beginning and at the moment he was elected we need a black cabinet. come on all you people. say we is your black cabinet. [laughter] [applause] >> let's give a big round of applause. thank you very much. there's going to be a book signing >> thank you. please stay in your seats for the next panel please stay in your seats. [inaudible conversations] >> and mullen book tv a panel discussion on the emancipation proclamation. as we continue our coverage of the harlem bo
it's up to us as a people to say let us begin again to do the work. that is we are going to live, we are going to love and resist. most important word is resist. we are calling to resist. i will come once a week, once a month, twice a month, whatever, to have conversations about where are we, where are we going, and the other thing is even though barack obama didn't run, we should have a black cabinet. it can be official and unofficial but if he does something wrong we will send him a letter...
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for these attrs and we wou ta tus n erms of our international standards it costs us in terms of respect to the rest of the rld which has much in many cases stronger standards than we do in these st self-governing society and one in which certain rules are enforced on the government itself. .. >> an hourlongrogram where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. this week, biogpher per llon l ras olal n. he examines the le of the first female u.s. ambassador to the united nions and a key member of reagan's foreign policy team, jeane kirkpatrick. he discusses the mes-roia ofr angela stent. >> host: welcome to c-span's "after words." my name is angela stent, i'm director for the center for euantuds a getian andeast er, mesda polr, h the author of "political woman: the big little life of jeane kirkpatrick." mr. collier, as a prolific biographer, you've written biographies of the kennedys, the roelan'rrye eatoe erda jeane kirkpatrick was a pioneer in many ways. she was the first american woman to be ambassador to the united nations. she also elevad thatosition to cabinet rank. wempnt deatnd
for these attrs and we wou ta tus n erms of our international standards it costs us in terms of respect to the rest of the rld which has much in many cases stronger standards than we do in these st self-governing society and one in which certain rules are enforced on the government itself. .. >> an hourlongrogram where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. this week, biogpher per llon l ras olal n. he examines the le of the first female u.s. ambassador to the united nions and a key...
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it is a step to mit that you know himasacrhadccd us sais ey'tndk that. she began to finally come and she didn't believe in this notion the neocons were promoting, the nt generation of neocons were promoting about the end of history he th hryldev unshw te state -- stake driven to the hearof the communist party. >> host: and so come he does just mentioned a second wave of neoconservatives. in the bush of administration enltteheieior, she thenihe lld. haokither former colleagues, her intellectual soulmates over the war in iraq and what followed from that. why would she do that? why was she opposed at? guest:i o inkhat shs ocrve he. sense that irving crystal had been a neoconservative. to jeane it was kind of the landing place for libels like herself, who had bee ejeed by thmoic party. lira she had never fully -- a part of her had been suspicious of democry promotion as a soliry end of fon-cystcy sndm us the metaphor, after she finally it endethat the soviet empire was done for, it's like a rubber band that has been stretched and kind of snapping back. e kin
it is a step to mit that you know himasacrhadccd us sais ey'tndk that. she began to finally come and she didn't believe in this notion the neocons were promoting, the nt generation of neocons were promoting about the end of history he th hryldev unshw te state -- stake driven to the hearof the communist party. >> host: and so come he does just mentioned a second wave of neoconservatives. in the bush of administration enltteheieior, she thenihe lld. haokither former colleagues, her...
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i use the metaphor after she finally admitted that the soviet empire was done for. it was like a rubber band stretched to its limit, kind of snapping back. her feeling was well, america as she put it can be a normal country now. it doesn't have to be on war footing all the time, have this normal sense of mobilization in the cultural and intellectual and political sphere. we can be a normal country. of course the neocons commit the new generation of neocons commit neoconservative to pinellas people call it say come on. there's still work to do, democracy all over the world. it's a given fact. cheating is very skeptical of that and all these little words after the first gulf war, what she does support, although it's a bit reluctantly. haiti and somalia, she just saw this as an invitation for the u.s. to squander its wealth, power and military she was very skeptical about it. so by the time iraq to comes around, she is really not on board. she was a good soldier. for a moment or two she agreed with the bush administration asked her to go to geneva as part of a u.n. del
i use the metaphor after she finally admitted that the soviet empire was done for. it was like a rubber band stretched to its limit, kind of snapping back. her feeling was well, america as she put it can be a normal country now. it doesn't have to be on war footing all the time, have this normal sense of mobilization in the cultural and intellectual and political sphere. we can be a normal country. of course the neocons commit the new generation of neocons commit neoconservative to pinellas...
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she could not use --he first person singular pronoun was an enemy of jeanne's. she couldn't bring herself to do the sort of e mest veti, enge -- personal revelation into her million missouri and -- memoirs, and i talked too her trying to convince her, and she was like, i'd like too but i can't. ani sd,'lelp y doew a do a syllabus -- naive of me, work as an editor of your own life rather than a creator of your own life. so we went long like that for quite a number of conversations, andhell wna lyom hdo it, and after she died, i thought, this is the kind of promiseo keep. it's not as she herself said, a big life, but it's a very important life, and i did this book to keep her moryre >>os tt mp -- explains the title, boy r "the big little life." it's important to arabout the values shelash in the heartland. and she grew up in a socty where the values were very good, but whereir yom ot nessalyge get a four-year college degree or have a career. so if you could talk about her family background and the things that informed her view of life and of society and politics a
she could not use --he first person singular pronoun was an enemy of jeanne's. she couldn't bring herself to do the sort of e mest veti, enge -- personal revelation into her million missouri and -- memoirs, and i talked too her trying to convince her, and she was like, i'd like too but i can't. ani sd,'lelp y doew a do a syllabus -- naive of me, work as an editor of your own life rather than a creator of your own life. so we went long like that for quite a number of conversations, andhell wna...
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but we have seen the use in 20th censure ri by the way, the founding fathers had little use for presidential rhetoric. they worried that the presidents who went out and spoke a lot with the demagogues that they would be making the worst kind of appeal toss the american people. >> so did they live it? >> by and large, they did. if you go back and you look at the kind of speeches that our presidents in the 19th century gave, what you find of course is that they gave some ceremonial addresses. but what they did not do, they did not go out, for example, and make a tour asking the american people to rally behind the president against congress, and on behalf of some legislative proposal that the president had on the hill that is simply unknown. of course, we didn't have the kind of technology that ecoul ecould -- that could equip the president to go out. the one time there was a departure from from that from andrew jackson, he almost got impeached. one of the articles of im35e67ment dealt with the speeches he made. you can't imagine someone trying to indict a president on the speeches today. every
but we have seen the use in 20th censure ri by the way, the founding fathers had little use for presidential rhetoric. they worried that the presidents who went out and spoke a lot with the demagogues that they would be making the worst kind of appeal toss the american people. >> so did they live it? >> by and large, they did. if you go back and you look at the kind of speeches that our presidents in the 19th century gave, what you find of course is that they gave some ceremonial...
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i will speak about the decision to use the bomb. and i think at the time, there was no questioning about it. and i do not think it was that great a decision. when you think about what the losses had been in the pacific, when they dug in, iwo jima, okinawa, those areas, the south weren't even part of japan formally until, like, 50 years beforehand, and the japanese had fought such a bloody battle, the lowses were so heavy, and america looked forward to that. there was no love lost between america and japan, and now we're hearing more and more as time goes on, really the extent of american antipathy to the japanese, that there were massacres on our side as well. it was -- i think there was more hostility from american people the japanese than there were to the german forces. anyway, i think that it's not a controversial decision -- not as hard a decision as we think of it today. i think it was more natural and i also think it was the right decision, and i think the fact that truman needs to drop the first bomb, is driven home by the f
i will speak about the decision to use the bomb. and i think at the time, there was no questioning about it. and i do not think it was that great a decision. when you think about what the losses had been in the pacific, when they dug in, iwo jima, okinawa, those areas, the south weren't even part of japan formally until, like, 50 years beforehand, and the japanese had fought such a bloody battle, the lowses were so heavy, and america looked forward to that. there was no love lost between...
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were trying to break us. and they have addressed. and they send the case to federal court they go out of business, and they try to take the crumbs. one of the crumbs of the ballpark in chicago. it goes back at least that far. every time there is an expansion, some of the pressure for expansion was because of congressional investigations. as to what is going on. the first round of it. and we think sometimes, i'll use the expression -- the quote from mickey mantle, when mantle was testifying about something before congress in the early 1950s. in single goes on and on and he is talking sideways and upside down and nobody knows how to follow him. and then they turned mickey mantle and say, mickey mantle, your comment? >> and he says i agree with everything that he just said. except that i have to say that. i don't know what i'm talking about. >> host: bay city, michigan. please go ahead for your question for david pietrusza. >> caller: hello, sir. i wanted your opinion on a play. i think it is one of the most historical plays in baseball
were trying to break us. and they have addressed. and they send the case to federal court they go out of business, and they try to take the crumbs. one of the crumbs of the ballpark in chicago. it goes back at least that far. every time there is an expansion, some of the pressure for expansion was because of congressional investigations. as to what is going on. the first round of it. and we think sometimes, i'll use the expression -- the quote from mickey mantle, when mantle was testifying...